Canada: Year History

canada: For 17 years, Charmaine Nelson has asked new students at McGill University if they knew that slavery occurred in Canada, according to CTV. She can recall just one student who said that they did. To Indigenous and Black educators in Canada, it's a relationship that has been left out of history books. Most only knew of the Underground Railroad, the network of safe houses and secret routes for enslaved people in the U.S. to escape to Canada that was used from approximately 1833 to 1865. We're obscuring, falsifying and completely erasing in many instances a 200-year history and we're enshrining a 30-year history, said Nelson, an art history professor who has researched the visual culture of slavery, in a phone interview with CTVNews.ca. But Canada's history with slavery goes back much further. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.